'Whatever you do, the first two years will be terrible': an immigrant from Ukraine gave advice on adapting to America

Vladislav Perepon shared his experience of adapting after immigrating to the United States in a Facebook group for Ukrainians who live, work, study, travel or plan a trip to Los Angeles. Vladislav Perepon moved to Los Angeles 2.5 years ago, and only a year since…

Adaptation Checklist: A Compilation of Helpful Tips for Immigrants for 2022

On the eve of Christmas and New Year's holidays, we all tend to expect miracles, pleasant gifts and unexpected joys. Forum Daily has also prepared a small gift for its readers. We tried to summarize some of the advice to immigrants that we gave in previous articles, preparing a kind of memo ...

Adapting to life in the USA: how to get rid of the fears and habits of the homeland and open up to new things

For many coming to the United States, immigration seemed like a dream come true. However, there are often cases when bright expectations and first enthusiasm give way to disappointment, nostalgia for an abandoned homeland torments more and more, and some immigrants even begin to regret their decision ...

Three features of life in the United States that infuriate immigrants

First, it is worthwhile to immediately make a reservation that America is beautiful for its diversity and possibilities, external beauty, entrepreneurial spirit, and the goodwill of most Americans, combined with a tactful ability not to violate your personal boundaries. And yet, many Russian-speaking emigrants, plunging into everyday and work vanity, ...

Stress and hatred in emigration: all stages of adaptation in a new country

Joy and the feeling that there are no barriers to happiness is usually only the first and one of the shortest stages that one has to go through after moving to a new country. As soon as the euphoria subsides, many problems arise - from everyday questions from the series "how to pay for electricity?" and "where to fix the bike?" to the more pressing “how to make friends and not become ...

Seven questions that will face everyone who decided to move to the United States

When moving to another country, many things cause concern - how not to get lost, where to find a company for communication? How to solve everyday issues - renting a home, buying insurance? How to travel - with whom, how and where to go in order to feel as comfortable as possible and be in the subject? Sergey tells ...

How Uzbeks live in America and where the diaspora settles

Few people know the exact number of those who left Uzbekistan over the past 15 years. I haven’t come across any statistics about this yet. But it is known that most of all citizens of Uzbekistan tend to leave for the USA, South Korea, Russia and the United Arab Emirates. Near…

Which immigrant is more likely to succeed in the United States

At a family gathering of the Oniejekwe family, wherever you spit, you will get a master's degree. Doctors, lawyers, engineers, professors - all family members have a higher education and a bread profession, and many also earn good money on the side. Children brag about honors, adults - ...

Personal experience: how to adapt in the USA if you are not created for immigration

They say that there are people created for immigration, and there are not created for it. I'm probably a person belonging to the first category. I had a great job, a stable income and very good prospects. When I said that I was leaving, they simply did not understand me. ...

How grandmothers can harm a child’s adaptation

We all love our grandparents very much, and they, of course, love us too. But sometimes, not on purpose - by accident and inadvertently - they cause us trouble. How our beloved grandmothers can hinder a child’s adaptation to a new place and what to do...

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